Re: [boost] Summer of Code 2010

Subject: Re: [boost] Summer of Code 2010
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-07 20:54:45

Robert Ramey wrote:

> Soooooo - from my perspective, I would like to see.
> 
> a) templated constructors added to boost.iterators

I'm not sure what you mean there.

> b) a bunch of iterator adaptors - some of which are like "dataflow
> iterators".

My library provides that kind of thing, albeit it works element per 
element; maybe you were imagining a buffered system when talking of 
"dataflow iterators"?

> c) a class for construction a codecvt facet out any iterator adaptor.

That's planned, but not done yet. Integrating with iostreams hasn't been 
a priority.

> Previous efforts at a unicode library have seemed to bog down
> in codepoints and whole lot of other stuff I don't understand.

My opinion on the whole Unicode "problem" is that ultimately we're just 
dealing with ranges of data, and what we need to have are tools that 
convert and segment (i.e. iterate over specific subsequences) that data.

Hence the utmost importance of ranges and iterators in the library, but 
those are still a hot topic (new Boost.RangeEx library, Alexandrescu 
talk at last Boostcon...)